So, I thought I would share my $90 worth about MW4. Over the past 4 weeks I've heard many opinions from the community. The majority fall to the match making. To that note I really don't care where the devs go. I can play either style and I'll do just fine. However, unlike some who have canceled their preorders I am a paying customer and I'm going to chime in. I had about 30 hours of play time between the two beta weekends. My biggest concern with this game is that Infinity Ward needs to find it's footing and get the game where it needs to be.

At the beta's launch we basically got a reskinned version of the MW2 reboot. Yes, they got rid of the charge up perk system, added Ninja, and cleaned up the visual diarrhea when you fire your gun. However, aside from that it was pretty much a reskin of their last game. This didn't go over well with the community. So, weekend 2 we saw a major pivot something more resembling what we currently have in BO6, B07 and MW3 in terms of spwans and TTK. Their stated goal at the end of the beta was they were going to try to find a middle ground for launch and get the game where it needs to be. I don't doubt they will pick a middle ground for launch, and what they release will be reasonably playable. There are a lot of really good ideas present in the beta including the progression systems options

I am getting the game at launch and will likely play a couple hundred hours of multiplayer over the course of the first 90 days of it's life cycle. I am curious what happens after that though. I just finished the season 6 battle pass for BO7 yesterday. I've been level 1,000 since june and I still logged in and played a few hours of multiplayer this evening. I am wondering if I will still be playing MW4 at this time next year, or will it putter out a few weeks into January. I am still playing BO7 because their create a class system offers a lot of class structure versitility, we have a wide range of movement options, the weekly and seasonal support has been good and consistant. Last we also have zombies as a fall back mode if I get bored with multiplayer.

Infinity Ward by contradiction is using a fairly rigid 3 perk create a class. The mobility is very limited. I am not talking about omnimovement, but the run, walk and strafe speeds are significantly slower than the last 3 years of COD. I am not sure what their weekly and seasonal support will be. However, the biggest concern is that multiplayer is all I am going to have to hold my attention this year. I haven't touched warzone in about 4 years and have no desire to revisit it. Likewise, if DMZ is strictly going to be PvPvE I am not evening going to boot it up. I am not going to invest 45 minutes into a one life mode where someone can cheat and waste an hour of my gaming time. So, I am curious how well their multiplayer will hold up over the course of the year.

There is going to come a point with MW4 where Infinity Ward is going to have to make a major pivot in the multiplayer experience. I am refering to like happened with MW3 where Sledge Hammer had to rebalance their loadout system extensively to keep the player base interested in the game. Or, like back in COD WW2 where they had to redo the whole division system and add infinite sprint to the game. Once those changes happened the game was better received by the community. Back in MW2 Infinity Ward had someone at the top with a stick rammed up their rear end. They wouldn't let the charge up perk system go and it killed the game off. This year given the drastic changes during the beta that doesn't seem to be the case. But, the question is whether they will pivot in time to keep the game relevant or not.

I was really looking forward to Modern Warfare 4, but after just a couple of hours, I’m completely done with it. Pre-order canceled. Honestly, I’d rather deal with the cheaters back in MW2019 than play this. I’m saving my money for GTA 6 instead. Activision, please stop turning CoD into a colorful arcade on fast-forward. This is supposed to be a military shooter, but the maps look way too vibrant and colorful, completely ruining the gritty atmosphere. Make an actual tactical shooter, not a clown show!

https://x.com/MISSILEHATCH/status/2096455617086984403

I don't have modern warfare 2 installed on my Xbox. Has anyone else noticed this about the modern warfare 4 beta?

I'm a 20+ year CoD fan, always played on console, only games I skipped were Advanced Warfare and MWIII 2023.

I've grown up with these games and the evolution. The good, the bad, the ugly.

I slipped MWIII because of the bad taste MWII left me with.

This beta made me really think we are back in the first 48 hours, then they started tweaking. Some things were for the better but then they completely miss balanced the guns, the spawn system is erratic and needs a ton of work, the disbanding lobbies are atrocious and the time to load feels infinite. SBMM is a travesty and is going to wreck public MP.

The maps feel good, visually this game is a breathe of fresh air compared to the cartoon AI BO6/7.

Audio is rough, I'm experiencing a lot of inconsistency with identifying sounds or even hearing things. The guns all sound the same which is unfortunate.

The TTK is a bit fast, I don't think it needs a lot of work, balancing the guns would help.

I'm fine with the movement but also annoyed, strafe speed is too slow and needs tweaked. If they are not going to have movement that allows for evasion and we are all forced to bunny hop every corner and very gunfight then add a penalty for it.

Overall I think the groundwork is there but if they do not fix these things, this game will fall off just like the last 2 titles.

This is ridiculous. I expeted mw2019 visuals with 60FPS in every game mode.

And what Switch User get? BO3 on PS3 on the go.

Warzone & Ground War ~ 28 FPS

DMZ I don't even wanna know.

Crossplay is a punishment if you don't have the same visibility.

What a JOKE! Activision you had the chance and you completly f'ed up.

Anyone else been experiencing absolutely horrendous lag during the beta?

Pressing sprint no longer breaks ADS like in previous Modern Warfare titles.
Right now, you have to press your aim key again to exit ADS before you can sprint, which makes the game feel much slower and puts keyboard‑and‑mouse players at a disadvantage.

It’s frustrating because the game is fun, but this single setting will probably make me play less.
Is this intended? Are other KBM players experiencing the same issue?

So, I've been playing this game since weekend one, using a discord code, absolutely loved it so much I even bought the vault edition-

But these changes to TTK and many nerfs across the board have quite literally, made this game super unenjoyable for me :(

Now I can't use my fav guns cause they're off-meta, so in a slow TTK game I'm always gonna be worse than everyone, compared to Weekend 1 where I could get so many kills with guns I like instead of picking just the meta option. And ambushes or picking off people who aren't paying attention isn't even an options anymore, since I don't use the meta, it doesn't matter if I shoot first, react fast, nothing, if the enemy can just slighty start firing after me with their Oris, M4, or any other kind of current meta weapon, I always lose, I've counted like 37 kills on a single day that I've been robbed from the TTK being slower-

And also, don't forget we've gotten 3 games in a row with a slow TTK, I've been skipping almost all of them so far because I always preferes IW's games and TTK, and now in Weekend 2 they just, make a MW flavored Black Ops? Completely killed my enjoyment for the game, so much so this was my first ever refund for a game in my entire life :(

Such a shame they left such a good game with amazing gun designs and overall vibe, go back to being generic like most of the other cods before it in the recent years, with only meta weapons being used, basically making an IW game not an IW game-

I've played this game since cod 4 and only skipped horrendous entries like Vanguard and Blops7.

Fuck you and your session optimizing algorithm, fuck you and your shitty ass fortnite skins, fuck you for gutting multiplayer to chase that Fortnite money, and fuck you for making an mw2 dlc into mw3 and acting like it's a full game, with a shitty story AI couldn't even make because it's so bad.
Get Fucked, we'll be playing War Dogs, GTA 6, and the million other choices we have. You've milked the cow dry, GET FUCKED.

Hoped on played and every game was at least 1 dude with an lmg camping... and I alr got a chat warning for calling someone a pussy for camping.... thank you cod for staying dogshit so i can finaly not buy your game and escape the cuck that is cod

IS FUCKING TOILET BOWL LOL

Like...apparently everything on the map is solid concrete, including small cars, barriers, and light poles. Tanks cannot knock over anything, or move any vehicle...who's bright idea was this?

Also there's clearly bots filling the lobbies. Braindead NPCs not reacting to tanks shooting right at them, and vehicles being driven to the same place only to do nothing and wait to be killed by actual players.

Bro what?

This might be the worst cod of all time shit is awful

I'm honestly shocked that no one else is talking about it. The vocals and certain sound effects are so low that when you turn up the volume to hear them, everything else in the game and your machine's notification sounds are too loud.

I feel like most COD reviewers just repeat what they hear from others and don't actually critique from their gameplay experience.

4 entries now into the “reboot” of modern Warfare and it’s just sad that everything from every recent cod of the last 5 years is just recycled trash into a new game from the last game. Nothing original or redeeming. Same UI same Menu screen. Awful intro and terrible guns disguised as good guns

Does killing in warzone also counts for the challenge?

I'm Korean, so my English isn't very good. Sorry about that. But I've been playing Call of Duty for over 10 years—actually, I've been playing since I was 10, and I still play it to this day. I'm so frustrated that this is the first time I've ever felt the need to write a post about it.

(I'll write the rest in Korean. Sorry!)

SR은 한 방이고 샷건도 근거리에서는 한 방이야.

그러면 AR이나 SMG는 TTK가 짧아야 상대하기 수월하다고.

왜 맨날 게임도 재대로 안하는 놈들 피드백을 하냐고

코옵을 맨날 하는사람들의 의견을 들어 ttk 를 늘리꺼면 워존에서만 늘리라고 진짜 맨날 게임안해본거처럼 패치하지말고

ttk 가 길면 길수록 게임이 재미가없고. 콜옵에 특색은 사라지는거라고

시1발 아니면 모던워페어 리부트1,2. 룰 더시 서비스하던가 진짜 병50 들 처럼 이럴꺼야? 니들 돈벌어야한다면 그래서 게임 처 팔고있으면서 왜 소비자 말은 듣지도안고 지꼴리는대로 처만들어서 게임 잘하고있던 유저 빡치개 만들어 콜옵 말고 대채제가 없다고 빠르고 정신없는 총게임은 지금. 진짜 개병50새끼들 시

tJust make the TTK like it was in Modern Warfare (2019) and Modern Warfare II. Is that really so hard?

Spent the last hour trying to fix the error message i got upon opening the game saying my bios needed a firmware update and secure boot needed to be enabled. Im not too well versed with bios stuff and other pc settings because well no other game aside from cod has ever needed me to do this stuff.

Finally after updating my gigabyte motherboards firmware to the newest possible update it still says that it needs to be updated further since the tpm version is still only 3.95.2.5 instead of 3.95.5.5. So much for getting to try the beta

Fucking fuck

The game is fine, but I keep running into the same season 5 issues here. The matchmaking is fucked. Why I am in international lobbies? Why am i playing against pros when I'm a filthy casual. Oh and the old hacks work on the new game. Seen so many cheater. It's just sad. Slowly leaving the franchise after 18 years.